Pricing forest carbon
Pricing forest carbon and putting in place the means and channels to pay for it are necessary conditions to achieve the 2030 mitigation goals. Yet, after more than 15 years of discussion, payments for
REDD
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Towards policies for climate change mitigation: incentives and benefits for smallholder farmers
Climate finance provides an opportunity to facilitate the adoption of agricultural practices that support climate mitigation and adaptation. This report evaluates how governments can use climate finance
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Forest management and climate change: a literature review
The FAO has released a working paper summarizing knowledge and experience in forest management as a response to climate change, based on a literature review and a survey of forest managers. The paper
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Climate change, forests, and you: grassroots capacity building for REDD+ in the Asia-Pacific region
This publication serves as a resource for community level facilitators to provide explanations about the basics of climate change and the role of forests. It aims to raise the awareness of grassroots stakeholders
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REDD+ and adaptation in Nepal
This case study examines how REDD+ and adaptation policies are currently aligned in Nepal’s national policy, before assessing whether planning for REDD+, outlined in the Readiness Preparation Proposal
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OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050
The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 asks “What could the next four decades bring?” Based on joint modelling by the OECD and the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, it looks forward to the
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Buying our way out of environmental problems?
PES is often touted as win-win with both environmental gains and poverty alleviation. But REDD+ does not neccesarily translate into forest conservation or benefit local communities.
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India's submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat on climate change
India's submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat on climate change.
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Green programme to pay dividends to communities
The director general of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) believes that programmes like ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus (REDD+)’ can potentially
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Rethinking REDD+ benefitting the environment and forest people
The second annual Asia REDD+ Working Group facilitated by Community Forestry International was held in Kathmandu, Nepal. Members from government, NGOs, field project representatives, international donors,
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Structuring economic incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation within Indonesia
We estimate and map the impacts that alternative national and subnational economic incentive structures for reducing emissions from deforestation (REDD+) in Indonesia would have had on greenhouse gas emissions